Exit/Admit Slips

Exit Slips are written responses to questions the teacher poses at the end of a lesson or a class to assess student understanding of key concepts.  They should take no more than 5 minutes to complete and are taken up as students leave the classroom.  The teacher can quickly determine which students have it, which ones need a little help, and which ones are going to require much more instruction on the concept.  By assessing the responses on the Exit Slips the teacher can better adjust the instruction in order to accomodate students' needs for the next class.

Admit slips are exactly like Exit Slips, but they are done prior to or at the beginning of the class.  Students may be asked to reflect on their understanding of their previous night's homework, or they may reflect on the previous day's lesson if the question required a longer response time. Exit and Admit Slips can be used in all classes to integrate written communication into the content area.

3-2-1 Exit Slip

 

Links on Exit/Admit Slips:

Readingrockets:  Exit Slips

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/exit_slips

AdLit.org: Exit Slips

http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19805

Writing Across the Curriculum: Entry/Exit Slips

http://writing2.richmond.edu/wac/entrexit.html

Exit Slips: Effective Bell-Ringer Activities

http://www.teachhub.com/news/article/cat/14/item/377

Admit Slips and Exit Slips

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/admit_slips09.pdf

 

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